صعلك
Q. 1 صَعْلَكَهُ, (
O,
K,)
inf. n. صَعْلَكَةٌ, (
TA,) He rendered him poor, or needy. (
O,
K.)
A2: صعلك الثَّرِيدَةَ He made the ثريدة [or mess of crumbled bread moistened with broth] to hare a head: or he raised its head. (
K.) And صعلك أَسْفَلَ السَّنَامِ He stretched up the lower part of the camel's hump so as to make its upper part of a rounded form. (
Sh, O.)
b2: And صعلك البَقْلُ الإِبِلَ The herbs, or leguminous plants, fattened the camels. (
Sh,
O,
K.)
Q. 2 تَصَعْلَكَ He was, or became, poor, or needy. (
S, *
O, *
K.) And He made a show of poverty. (
KL.) [He affected to be such as is termed صُعْلُوك.]
b2: تصعلكت الإِبِلُ The camels cast, or shed, their fur, (
S,
K,
TA,) and, some add, became bare. (
TA.)
Accord. to
Sh, The camels became slender in their legs in consequence of fatness [of the body;
app. meaning that their legs became slender in comparison with their bodies]. (
TA.) And
accord. to
As, تصعلك said of a horse, He became slender, and shed his abundant and long hair. (
TA.) صُعْلُوكٌ Poor, or needy; (
S,
O,
K,
TA;) [a poor man;] and
ISd adds, having no property; and
Az adds, and having no reliance [upon any person or thing]: (
TA:) and a thief, or robber: (
KL:)
pl. صَعَالِيكُ. (
S, O.) صَعَالِيكُ العَرَبِ meansذُؤْبَانُهَا [i. e., as
expl. voce ذِئْبٌ, The thieves, or sharpers, and paupers, of the Arabs; or the paupers of the Arabs who practise thieving: because they act like wolves]. (
S, O.) 'Orweh Ibn-El-Ward was called عُرْوَةُ الصَّعَالِيكِ because he used to collect the poor in a حَظِيرَة [i. e. an enclosure for cattle] and sustain them by means of the plunder that he took. (
S,
O,
K.) مُصَعْلَكُ الرَّأْسِ A man round in the head: (
O,
K,
TA:) or, as some say, small in the head. (
TA.) And مَصَعْلَكٌ applied to a camel's hump, Such as is as though one rounded its upper part, and stretched up its lower part with the hand so as to make it assume that rounded form. (
Sh, O.)
